Today Jer and I decided to spend the day together to celebrate my birthday since he was busy with his brother most of the weekend. We mostly laid around, played Mario Kart and ate but it has been a great day. Sometimes you just need a lazy day- right? Yes.
So that being said my gym plan has mostly gone out the window for today. Whatever. I'm still sore in the glues and in the forearms from yesterday. I had a short back/bicep workout. I haven't done cardio in about 6 weeks. It's kind of sad. I miss running. Wah wah. Maybe I can fit it in. I just want to gain muscle and I have read that in order to do so, cardio isn't a great idea since it eats up all the calories you'd use to otherwise build muscle. Maybe as long as I'm eating enough I can do both.
It's difficult to figure out how much one needs to eat for their level of physical activity. As an "active" female I probably need around 2000 calories a day, but that isn't factoring in how much protein I need, how many carbs, how much fat etc.
This is a cool little gadget I found that is fairly accurate as a rough guideline. As a "moderately active" female I'd need around 2000 calories a day. A little more than that in order to gain weight/build muscle. However the type of calories does count. In order to build muscle, I need to increase my protein intake. If I were interested in losing weight, decreasing the number of carbohydrates would be the best place to start.
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